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The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. "A Hideous Monster of the Mind" reveals that ideas on race crossed racial boundaries in a process that produced not only well-known theories of biological racism but also countertheories that were early expressions of cultural relativism, cultural pluralism and latter-day Afrocentrism. From 1800 to 1830 in particular, race took on a new reality as Americans, black and white, reacted to postrevolutionary disillusionment, the events of the Haitian Revolution, the rise of cotton cutlure, and the entrenchment of slavery. Dain examines not only major white figures like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Sd

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• Plný název: Hideous Monster of the Mind
• Podnázev: American Race Theory in the Early Republic
• Autor: Bruce Dain
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 334
• EAN: 9780674009462
• ISBN: 0674009460
• ID: 04634396
• Nakladatelství: Harvard University Press
• Hmotnost: 608 g
• Rozměry: 167 × 239 × 29 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. February 2003

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